Thursday, 11 August 2011

Pimp my Combi - Photo Gallery


Pimp my Combi
National Gallery of Zimbabwe
4 Aug - 4 Sept 2011

Exhibition entrance





Courtauld Gallery

Abstract of poem by Ignatius Mabasa played in the combi installed in the Courtauld Gallery

Exhibition view from the Courtauld Gallery. The combi is fitted with sound system playing Mabasa's poem


Below: stickers inside the combi with comments revealing commonplace derogatory views on women. 
Here the combi reproduces the social space and acts as a place reflecting power relations defined by gender. 



The Playboy rabbit already present on the minibus reinforces the commodification of women evoked above


Left: Photograph by Angela Jimu. Right: Panoramic taxi rank by Bethule Nkiwane



Below: Believe Nyakudjara, from the series Living in Limbo (2010)






Below: Nyadzombe Nyampenza





Courtauld Gallery viewed from the upper level of the National Gallery


South Gallery


Herald poster relating recent combi accident juxtaposed to Zinyange Ruzvidzo's photograph of dismantled vehicle.

Left: Resta Nyamwanga's documented bus accident


Below: Taxi series by Berry Bickle



Left: Berry Bickle. Right: video by Breeze Yoko


Below: Stills from Breeze Yoko's video A Short Ride on the Rat Race (2010)





Mbali Khoza, Untitled, triptych, 2011


View from the South Gallery


East Gallery


View revealing the NGZ architectural features and East Gallery in the background

Work by Nancy Mteki

Nancy Mteki, Sequence 1


Nancy Mteki, Sequence 2


Below: Christopher Hunt, from the series A Pimp and his Combi (2011)







Below: WAWAD (Wire-car Auto Workers Association of Detroit) presented by Chido Johnson. 
WAWAD is a collaborative project involving 13 artists 





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